This video is unavailable error

FraWolf commented 5 years ago

Hi everyone! I was trying to add a video by a link but with every link I try it says: "Error: This video is unavailable.". I've the latest version of ytdl-core (0.28.3), and the error is in the let info = await ytdl.videoInfo("url").catch(err => { console.log(err) });

fent commented 5 years ago

Not sure what ytdl.videoinfo() refers to. Is that a custom function?

FraWolf commented 5 years ago

Ops, bad copy-paste, I was talking about let info = await ytdl.getInfo("url").catch(err => { console.log(err) });

fent commented 5 years ago

A few more questions to help narrow down the issue

This happens with every video you try? If not, can you the video this happens on?
Could you post more direct code to see if there's anything going on with the implementation?
Run npm ls ytdl-core to see if the installed version is the latest, sometimes even if you run npm install ytdl-core it'll install an older version due to another module depending on it.

FraWolf commented 5 years ago

It happens with every video I try
The script worked fine, a day I updated it and stopped working.. (I haven't modified that)
The version is the latest (0.28.3)

TimeForANinja commented 5 years ago

did you try going back to a older ytdl-core version to see whether that fixes your problem?

FraWolf commented 5 years ago

Yes, but nothing, same error.

TimeForANinja commented 5 years ago

What you can try is writing the body you receive from the request into a .html and open it using your browser / sending us That might already tell you where the problem's at

FraWolf commented 5 years ago

I'm using Glitch.com for use ytdl-core. I'm hosting my own discord bot there.

TimeForANinja commented 5 years ago

I'm using Glitch.com for use ytdl-core. I'm hosting my own discord bot there.

haven't heard from that ¯\(ツ)/¯

TimeForANinja commented 5 years ago

but i guess that's your problem

It is strongly advised you actually shell out a couple dollars a month and get an actual real VPS, due to the free nature of Glitch it has led to a high number of Glitch based IP's getting API banned by Discord due to abuse.

i'd bet google did the same

FraWolf commented 5 years ago

I've already a server, but with glitch my music bot works better, it's a very small server (1gb ram, 20gb ssd and 1 vcore)

FraWolf commented 5 years ago

But I have a problem only when I use link, if I search a song with keywords the bot found it and reproduce it.

fent commented 5 years ago

Does running your app locally or in another environment have it work?

Stapleton commented 5 years ago

I am getting the same issue, normal old household PC. No server or anything. Residential connection in Alberta, Canada. ytdl-core: 0.29.1 node: 11.6.0 npm: 6.5.0-next.0

Just confirmed that this happens on my server as well, it is a dedicated machine through OVH in Ontario, Canada. ytdl-core: 0.29.1 node: 11.6.0 npm: 6.5.0-next.0

Stapleton commented 5 years ago

Can confirm its happening on all of them for me. Even went all the way back to 0.20.2 and same issue.

Edit: I just tested ytdl-getinfo and even it is giving me the error This video is unavailable. So I am thinking its something with our connections or youtube itself.

Edit 2: ytdl-getinfo can search for the youtube video info. Instead of getting it from a link, you can give it search words. It seems a straight up link doesnt work but I can give search terms and that works.

SpeedBoostDiscord commented 5 years ago

Germany have a lot of issues with youtube videos, I'd host elsewhere. As for Ontario, it will just be specific videos probably

Zargith commented 5 years ago

Hello! I've the same issue and I don't know why... Yesterday it was working well but today not at all ! I got the last version of ytld-core and I'm sure that not come from my connection because I can acces like I want at internet. I'm currently in France but I don't think it's the cause :/ (I say that because of reading other comments)

Personnaly I use ytdl-core for my Discord bot in JS

Zargith commented 5 years ago

Okay my bad!

That's because I was using toLowerCase method! And I did that yesterday before to go bed that's why I didn't notice it earlier 😂

npreiber commented 5 years ago

So I have a question about handling this error within an application without terminating. Whenever I get this error the program terminates rather than continuing to process videos. Is there anyway to prevent this. I've tried catching the exception in try-catch block.

AdamKearn commented 4 years ago

I am looking for a way to catch this error as well. I don't want my code to terminate when this error is presented.

fent commented 4 years ago

you can catch this error by listening to the error event from the returned stream

let stream = ytdl(url);
stream.on('error', err => {
  // handle it
});

do the following to catch uncaught errors, but it's strongly recommended to figure out where the error originates from so you can handle it properly

process.on('uncaughtException', err => {
});

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